Woman's Enterprise from Baton Rouge, Louisiana • Page 4

WOMAN'S ENTERPRISE Published in the Interest of the Club Women of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1921. OUR MISSION. Enjoying a status not heretofore accorded them, participating to the fullest extent in the activities of life and laboring earnestly for the economic, moral, social and political uplift of the community, the women of Baton Rouge consider the time opportune in which to launch a free and untrameled newspaper to express their views on all public questions. That there is a field for the venture without trespassing upon the pastures of the daily and weekly papers there is slight doubt and in a spirit of good will towards all it is the determination of the women of Baton Rouge to prove to the world that women are as fully alive to the demands of the times as are they of the sterner sex, and with this understanding present i to the public the first issue of the Women's Enterprise, which is to be published monthly and to be edited, published and managed en- tirely by women.

While the Women's Enterprise will never intrude upon the rights and privileges of private individauls nor allow the use of its columns for the dissemination of personal spite or prejudice, it will nevertheless criticize as severely as its vocabulary will admit all violations of law, all shortcomings of officers and make unre- lenting war upon all persons guilty of offenses against the moral code. With this understanding the Women's Enterprise makes its initial appearance. "BETTER BIDE AWEE." To those so busy in selecting candidates for city offices wet commend the advice tendered in the old Scotch song that it would be far wiser to "bide as the women of Baton Rouge intend to be heard on all important subjects and the women just endowed with the right of command quite a large vote even though no great number are as yet registered. As a new registration has I been povided by the recently adopted constitution, the number of female voters will be largely increased, no doubt to the chagrin of the would be Warwicks-the king makers. It may be claimed that our women generally will vote as do their fathers, sons or brothers, but let the Woman's Enterprise advise that such by no means will be the case.

Rather, as the platform of women will be war on all malfeasance, misfeasance and non-feasance on the part of public officials, expulsion of gamblers, and abandoned men and women, a more tidy city and gen- eral improvement among all civic lines they are apt to influence their kindred instead of being carried away by stereotyped ineth- ods practiced under the old regime. Woman's Enterprise firmly believes that at least one woman will occupy a position of considerable importance in the next City Commission. Watch and see you who are so quick to choose officials of Baton Rouge. It is recorded that "pride goeth before a fall." s. THE GOOD ROADS PROJECT.

In this era of automobile travel the women of Louisiana are as alive to the importance' of good roads as are the men and as ready to back up every feasible proposition. But in furnishing their aid and influence they wish the millions of dollars provided pl by the Constitutional Convention to be wisely applied by a depart- a ment separate and apart from all other State institutions and in e' charge of the best and ablest road builders to be found. They will oppose the road movement becoming a political machine or falling in into the hands of impracticable politicians out of a job. tv The rate of taxation fixed by the Constitutional Convention ju will extract millions from the pockets of auto owners and this should be spent wisely and economically and not used as rewards si for political services rendered or to be rendered at some future date. a at That; Governor Parker, thorough business man that he is, will by do everything in his power to protect this immense fund goes with- Ioi dout saYing, but the "King dies and the King lives, all hail the King," and we not who may serve in that capacity in the fu- ca ture.

The Legislature should place the road construction beyond gi the reach of those who would convert the movement into a great nI political machine. Let it be placed upon a sound business basis er to be carried on successfully by first elass business men in a first ei class business manner, men of the calibre of those who conducted ha the campaign that made the Greater Agricultural College a cer- Pc tainty. inr Many of the readers of this paper will be surprised at the amount of work done in the way of civic improvement, charitable br dispensations, school affairs by the women of Baton Rouge and Iwi other matters of a public character. Eyes of the male sex will be opened by a perusal of the history of ladies' organizations. Of er! course, in a superficial way, every citizen knekr that the women af were accomplishing more or less in the way of civic betterment, da but a few in this age of hurry and scramble for personal gain have pa given much thought to what women have done and are doing and 4 to such we commend a perusal of the reports herein published.

in por If fault is to be found with this issue of Women's Enterprise wo it must be attributed to the short time allowed for the preparation. Within two weeks from the time the idea of publishing a paper hol edited and managed by ladies was conceived the Enterprise was the on the streets. Few of those who scan the newspapers have any fat idea of the obstacles to be overcome in their preparation and for an for that reason we feel decidedly proud of our achievements. Patron- the age has been all that could be reasonably expected, or desired and would have exceeded what we present to-day had time permitted. bmu We consider our venture a decided success.

one a otCo eTat SetIIrT er Sotm For Le We Fear No Competition TheStoreof GreaterVal ZI. Bao 'ResLo RENDER UNTO CAESAR THE THINGS THAT ARE CAESAR'S. Mary Colemann Herget I wish to state, iy way of preface, that this little article may be somewhat of a ramble, but the reader may, perchance, see some connections, and here's hoping its vagaries will be kindig ly received. ly Many years ago, when girls' coll. leges were first organized in America, in the majority of the people shook their Sheads declaring that womanliness it would certainly disappear from woman re she she be allowed to attend these ina- stitutions; that a woman's place was it in the home, and should she step out le of it she would knock the props from under society and religion.

A woman who could discuss Brownnt ing was looked upon as a freak, liable t0o to have a knobby forehead. and sure q- to be a dowdy, unkempt looking individual. Somehow the opinion seemed to prevail that an educated woman le couldn't possibly be the mistress of a iS happy home, a contented, sociable it wife, a loving, thoughtful mother. it Notwithstanding these dire predicStions and headshakings, as time has passed and the "finishing schools" have improved, what has been the result? The skeptical have been conts verted! The "staying power" of the woman-in body, in mind, and in womanliness-has been given the acid test and HELD. Now comes the great hue and cry against co-education.

Descendants of those doubting Thomases, those Prod phets of "dire disaster" to God, and Home, and Native Land, should womd en be allowed to attend colleges, are I shaking their heads and declaring: "Co-education is cheapening our girls! lS It is making them bold and brazen! It Of is encouraging them to smoke ciga)f rettes, and go joy-riding at untimely hours of the night." I am afraid that 1all the sins catalogued against the, present day girls are accounted for on that score. I- Just by way of parenthesis, let me id digress from the main thought and Smake the declaration that the adoptioon of the 19th amendment is a big WHY for co-education. When that article was passed, every woman in 1' this country, will she or nil she, was pushed out of the narrow protected Shome life into the lime light of public life. The same problems men have been solving all these years were put Sup to her. Why shouldn't the sister a have the same education, shoulder to shoulder, pith the brother in the same class rooms, under the same professors, out of the same books, etc.

The parenthesis is closed. It must needs be admitted that things have gone to the extreme in reS gard to "female apparel," "young people's and I believe, older people's. There is more disgrace than grace in the toddling, shimmying modern dance. It is a deplorable fact that at most of the so called exclusive af- I fairs, many of the participants feelr ing the need of "pepping up" after twelve, indulge in frequent sips of the 1 juice of the forbidden fruit. Even a casual observer may notice, on a ride of any length, car after car, parked silent and dark miles from home and mother, on out of the way paths.

But are these miscreants always college boys and girls? Do they always belong to the so called younger set? If so, is it true simply of co-educational institutions? So WHY blame co-education! WHY blame the boys and I girls entirely! WHY put it up to the mothers as does the 9th of July Literary Digest! Ever since the apple eating party of ancient times the sins both of omission and commission I have been deposited to Eve's credit. Poor Mother Eve! Why not, believing in equal rights, ask the question: Where are the FATHERS as well as the mothers? In discussing this with one of my brightest little co-eds she remarked with a wise shake of her pretty head: "Well, Dean, if the fathers and mothers would only stand pat on daughter and sonny boy you would not have any trouble about unchaperoned dances, and suppers and swimming parties, and absent class and tardies." Our wonderful America took part in the late war with the avowed purpose of making the world safe for women. After the countless "last sacrifices" were so willingly made, shall our boys be turned into beasts in home town dens? These home towns, these streets, that have been fathers father's care long before mother had any official say! Father's money pays for the gasoline, the short dresses, the high heels, the cosmetic bills. In an old fashioned autograph album, I read this inscription: "It is one of the eccentricities of the ages, I that we keep abreast of the times." large degree for the timnes which our The Wonman's Enterprise is the most MyI contention is that fathers and young people feel called upon to keep readable paper ever published in Batmothers are responsible to a very up with. on Rouge.

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